Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy (born September 2, 1877, Eastbourne, United Kingdom; died 1956), was an English radiochemist. Soddy's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Frederick Soddy’s zodiac sign was Virgo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Ox, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Ox, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Frederick
Frederick Soddy’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Seeker
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Frederick in the U.S.?
#435
US rank in 2025
~267,165
Americans share it since 1880
1951
its peak year
The earliest American count for Frederick is 1880, 3 years on: 33rd, 483 American boys.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Frederick’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
7
Soul Urge · understanding
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on F (6) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 4 and 9: craft against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Frederick’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 9
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌸 Hibiscus
Lavender · Lilac · Scarlet
The record
What sets Frederick apart
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry came in 1921, when Frederick Soddy was 44.
Frederick Soddy was taught at Eastbourne College and Aberystwyth University.
On the family side, Frederick Soddy was married Winifred Beilby.
Wikipedia files Frederick Soddy under Chemists of the University of Aberdeen, Dr Lee's Professors of Chemistry and People from Eastbourne.
Keir Starmer (1962) and Keanu Reeves (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Eastbourne College, Aberystwyth University and Merton College
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1921)
- Nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 84
What the chart says
Frederick, according to the stars
Core essence
Frederick notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Frederick is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Frederick wants to be loved
Frederick wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Frederick gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Frederick creates
How Frederick makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Frederick creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Frederick is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Frederick is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Frederick slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.
Computed from Frederick's birth date. Working below.
Where Frederick sits
Six lines
Frederick’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Frederick Soddy
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Eastbourne on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Eastbourne that night
Computed for 50.77°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over Eastbourne at 9 p.m. that evening, 83.9° above the horizon in Cygnus.
Of the 90 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
At 50.8°N there are stars that never set at all. Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −39.2° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 29% lit at waning crescent, had already set; the Sun sat 20° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Eastbourne, United Kingdom
The death is recorded at Brighton, Brighton and Hove in 1956.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Frederick Soddy: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Frederick's chart is
Chart pattern score
12 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
Mars retrograde
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Frederick Soddy's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 2, 1877, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Fire Ox
Fire OxSays little. Finishes everything.
Frederick Soddy was born on September 2, 1877, which falls in a Fire Ox year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Ox means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Frederick Soddy's birth date, September 2, 1877, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Frederick’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Frederick Soddy's date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto.
- Frederick Soddy combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Seeker.
Frederick’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 23° to 7° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableUranussquarePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb
Frederick’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitertrineUranus2.0° orb
Frederick’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSuntrineNeptune2.2° to 3.1° orb
Frederick’s core identity flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn3.0° to 3.2° orb
stableSunoppositionMars3.7° to 5.0° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.5° to 6.6° orb
stableSunoppositionSaturn6.9° to 7.9° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.1° to 13.0° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionJupiterorb from 0.1° to 13.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileUranusorb from 0.1° to 11.5° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 13.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Frederick’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 4°08′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Aquarius 3°37′ (moves 0.12° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ Eros ℞Aries 0°49′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLibra 28°07′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 25°50′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Jupiter 1.8°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.1°
Frederick’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus6 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect
2. ☿ Mercury5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun; 1 major aspect
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Uranus; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Frederick’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 0.4°
- Venus semi-square Uranus 0.4°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.9°
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.9°
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 1.4°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.5°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
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Frederick’s cards
Computed from September 2, 1877. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Ox 丑Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
丁
yin Fire
丑
Ox
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Frederick’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q102830 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Frederick Soddy.
Quick answers about Frederick Soddy’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Frederick Soddy?
- Frederick Soddy was a Virgo: born September 2, 1877, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What was Frederick Soddy's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Ox, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 2, 1877 birth.
- What was Frederick Soddy's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What was Frederick Soddy's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Frederick Soddy's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Frederick Soddy's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury, Neptune, Pluto; 1 major aspect). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
